Fuel (2008)

Highlighting the many ways in which AFF 2023 illustrated that the queer experience is not a monolithic one.

The film seems like an extreme interpretation of the conspiracy theorists that exist in real life. And then, there’s the twist.

Even now, the well-established Snyder has yet to learn this as he continues to allow misguided decisions to convince him that his projects hold the same kind of intelligent and emotional weight. Army of the Dead is a tonal mess, one that never decides what it’s trying to be, and, for all we know, doesn’t want to decide.

What seems like such a simple story of survival is so much more than that—it’s a story of family, and of war, and of destruction. It’s painful to watch, but not in a bad way. It makes its audience reflect on their own actions, and in how they are complicit in the sufferings of others as the adults in this film are. Grave of the Fireflies does not hold back from being heartbreaking, and it shouldn’t. It tells a message that needs to be heard decades after the war, and a story that cannot be forgotten by history.

Disney has long since had a reputation for creating underwhelming sequels. Is Zootopia 2 any different?

It’s dark, uncomfortable, and there are things that don’t make sense.